Dr. Vijay Chandru, Chairman & CEO, Strand Life Sciences

Dr. Vijay Chandru
Chairman & CEO
Strand Life Sciences

Vijay Chandru is an alumnus of BITS Pilani where he trained in Electrical Engineering and went on to get a doctorate from MIT. Vijay is an academic and an entrepreneur who was named in the 50 Pioneers of Change by India Today in 2008. His academic career in mathematical sciences has spanned over thirty years as a research scientist and professor at Purdue University, IBM's TJ Watson Center, Indian Institute of Science, UPenn, Stanford and at MIT. He is a fellow of the national academies of science and engineering in India. As an inventor and co-founder of the open source handheld Simputer Project, and the leading computational biology company Strand Life Sciences, Vijay has been recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He currently serves as Chairman & CEO of Strand LS www.strandls.com and as the honorary president of ABLE www.ableindia.org (the apex body of Indian biotechnology industry) for a 3-year term 2009-2012. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at the International Centre for Theoretical Studies and the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore.